India's Train Tragedies: Signaling Errors and Unaccountable Government

At least 275 people were killed and over 1,000 others injured after the Coromandel Express train crashed into a parked freight train, scattering upturned passenger cars that were then struck by a Howrah Express train traveling at high speed in the opposite direction. Families are still trying to locate their loved ones, piles of dead bodies are waiting to be identified, and hospitals are laboring to treat an overwhelming number of injured passengers. India's extensive rail network is one of the largest in the world and built more than 160 years ago under British colonial rule.